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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Taz
Although signing years later with the World Wrestling Federation would provide incredible fanfare, the young man from Red Hook's first encounter in the wrestling industry would be as cold and hard as the Red Hook backstreets.
ECW History: Then, the phenomenon that would soon be known as Extreme Championship Wrestling began to build it's roots.
ECW needed a new ring, because guys kept getting hurt in the ring they had, So Taz designed the specs.
www.ecw2k.itgo.com /Taz.html   (1718 words)

  
  ECW World Heavyweight Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the highest ranked title in the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion from its start in 1992 (which was the ECW World Heavyweight Championship) up until the promotion's bankruptcy in 2001.
The belt was known as the NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship from 1992 to 1994.
During his WWF tenure, Rhino was recognized as the final ECW World Heavyweight Champion, and notably at the 2005 ECW One Night Stand event he was heralded as the final champion as well; however, he did not appear with the title at the event, and was not referred to as the "current" champion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ECW_World_Heavyweight_Championship   (630 words)

  
 ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ECW FTW (Fuck The World) Heavyweight Championship (also referred to as the Brooklyn World Championship) was an alternate world heavyweight championship contested in the professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Frustrated by his inability to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship from Shane Douglas, who was at the time absent and refusing to face him, Taz created and defended his own World title, billing himself as the "real" World champion.
Chetti defended it in Maryland Championship Wrestling in 2003 and lost it to Danny Doring on the final MCW show on July 16, 2003 when Doring defeated MEWF Champion Romeo Valentino and Chetti in a three-way match to unify their titles with his MCW Heavyweight Championship.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ECW_FTW_Heavyweight_Championship   (402 words)

  
 WWE - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mondt and McMahon wanted Rogers to keep the NWA World Championship, but Rogers was unwilling to sacrifice his $25,000 deposit on the belt (title holders at the time had to pay a deposit to insure they would honor their commitments as champion).
Rogers lost the NWA World Championship to Lou Thesz in a one-fall match in Toronto, Ontario on January 24, 1963, which led to Mondt, McMahon and the CWC leaving the NWA in protest, creating the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in the process.
This meant that the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship was downgraded (was no longer a world title) and was renamed the WWWF Heavyweight Title, though the WWWF champions during this NWA Membership were recognized retroactively as World Champions by WWE today.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=WWE   (2450 words)

  
 ECW Superstars - Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Back in Extreme Championship Wrestling with his most hated foe, Masato Tanaka, Mike Awesome knew the moment was his, and he took it, soundlydefeating and pinning Tanaka with a Powerbomb off the top rope thru a table to become the ECW World Heavyweight champion.
Now, with his first ECW World championship around his waist, Crazy prepares for a new role, champion.
One half of the former ECW World Tag Team champions, the Impact Players, internationally renowned star, "Canadian Superstar" Lance Storm was trained in the infamous Hart family dungeon and as such, is a walking scientific wrestling clinic.
maxpages.com /daultimatesite/ECW_Superstars - !http://maxpages.com/daultimatesite/ECW_Superstars   (3028 words)

  
 Confusion reigns at Guilty As Charged
The swerve in the three way main event for the ECW World Heavyweight Title between Steve Corino, Justin Credible and The Sandman was telegraphed earlier on when the man-beast Rhino went absolutely berserk on Swinger, Simon Diamond, Balls Mahoney and Chilly Willy.
Onward to the main event in which the ECW championship belt was suspended high above the ring.
ECW never fully explained why the belt was raised for Corino and Credible but not for The Sandman.
www.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingPPV/jan8_ecwguilty-can.html   (1395 words)

  
 World Heavyweight Championship History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The WWE claim the World Heavyweight title is the original world title.
This is 8 times as NWA World Champion (ignoring his title win in Singapore in 1984 and in Florida in 1991), 6 times as WCW World Champion and 2 times WWF Champion.
World title was unified with the WWF title to become the WWE Undisputed title.
www.davejennings.co.uk /wweworldtitle.htm   (1142 words)

  
 WrestleLine.com: Title Histories - ECW World Heavyweight Title
The two were the winners of separate battle royals to determine the championship finalists.
In one of the most famous moments in ECW history, champion Shane Douglas defeated 2 Cold Scorpio in the NWA World Heavyweight Championship tournament finals on Aug. 27, 1994, in Philadelphia, then doublecrosses the NWA by throwing down the NWA belt, opting instead to honor his ECW title as a world championship.
Eastern Championship Wrestling is renamed Extreme Championship Wrestling.
www.wrestleline.com /titles/ecw/ecwworld.shtml   (296 words)

  
 Super Wrestling Center
Almost immediately upon arriving in ECW for his third stint, he shocked the wrestling world by winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at Anarchy Rulz by defeating the reigning champion Tazz and arch nemesis Masato Tanaka in a three-way dance, which was signed on the spot.
As Awesome was not under contract to ECW at the time, he was free to negotiate and sign with any wrestling company he chose, and after signing with WCW only the threat of a federal injunction prevented WCW from having Awesome appear on their television shows with the ECW belt.
World Wrestling Entertainment recognized Awesome's death on-air by displaying an "In Memory..." graphic at the beginning of the February 20, 2007 ECW on Sci Fi.
www.geocities.com /supersportcenter/mikeawesome.html   (1559 words)

  
 WWE Titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The current World Heavyweight Championship, now exclusive to Smackdown, was introduced by Eric Bishoff on Raw on 2 September 2002 and presented to Triple H. The Championship remained on Raw until the 2005 WWE Draft when the heavyweight titles switched brands.
Even though he was presented with a new ECW World Heavyweight title at the premiere show of ECW on the Sci Fi network on 13 June 2006 he stated that he would keep both titles.
It was renamed the WWE United States Championship in 2003 and won by Eddie Guerrero in a tournament final to determine the new Champion at Vengeance on 27 July 2003.
www.worldofrock-wrestling.co.uk /productslink7.html   (7522 words)

  
 DVD Authority | DVD Review of "ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling): Barely Legal"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As we all know, Paul Heyman and his ECW wrestlers changed the face of American sports entertainment, thanks to their outrageous approach.
ECW was a smash success and produced many great events & superstars, but this is where it all started.
As usual for ECW, the audio sounds very "live" and while the in-ring vocals are a little soft, the rest of the elements seem in order.
www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?ReviewID=849   (483 words)

  
 Warned.net - ECW World Heavyweight Championship
Rob Van Dam June 13, 2006 Trenton, NJ Awarded the championship by Paul Heyman on the premiere broadcast of ECW on Sci Fi as result of winning the WWE Championship from John Cena at ECW One Night Stand 2006.
The original ECW championship belt is still in the possession of Rhino.
The belt was known as the NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship from 1992 to 1994.
www.warned.net /ECWworldchampions.html   (276 words)

  
 WelcometotheWwe.com - Tazz
According to ECW wrestler New Jack, during his time in ECW Senerca was a "snitch" who called dirt sheet writers and reported the backstage goings on of the ECW locker room.
Tazz won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in April of 2000 and during the same month, he won the Hardcore Championship for the third time by pinning Perry Saturn, but lost the title to Crash Holly shortly thereafter.
A month or so later, Senerchia was involved in the WWF Intercontinental Championship hunt, but was unable to defeat Chris Benoit for the title on two occasions (even though he defeated Chris Benoit in a non-title match by DQ earlier in their series of bouts).
www.welcometothewwe.com /Tazz.html   (1553 words)

  
 World Wrestling Entertainment: Continued Domination - Page 6 - Grey Dog Software
He says tonight is his chance to gain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
The ECW faithful in Detroit could feel that a title change was going to happen.
He states that he is ECW World Champion for a reason, and if RVD wants his precious title back, he is going to have to earn it, which is not easilly done against Big Show.
www.greydogsoftware.com /forum/showthread.php?p=152732   (4714 words)

  
 ECW has an Old School champ
At the exemplary November To Remember pay-per-view from the Odeum Theater in Illinois, Corino barely survived the barbaric four-way match against The Sandman, Justin Credible and then-champion Jerry Lynn in a championship bout which will be entered into the ECW record books as one of their mostbrutish and bloody ever.
The ECW World Title match was supposed to be two matches in one ring with the winners slated to face-off for the title.
Rhino no-sells New Jack's chair shot and went on to retain the ECW World Television Title at November To Remember 2000.
slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingPPV/nov6_ecw-can.html   (1558 words)

  
 ECW: Extreme Rules DVD Movie Review by AceGamez
With sixteen matches on offer it'd be cruel to say that everything after the original ECW incarnation is terrible, but when you compare any of the matches from the new ECW TV show to any of the matches from the first disk then you'll see why ECW is such a joke.
As the ECW TV show is only an hour long, I feel that they were given this match move for move in order to fit the timeframe (an ad break didn't help either) and so it doesn't feel as spontaneous as others in the past.
The only reason ECW went out of business in 2001 was because Paul Heyman was a terrible businessman; if he'd had the financial might of McMahon or Turner then he would have run both WWE and WCW into the ground with ECW's innovative match styles and entertaining storylines.
www.acegamez.co.uk /reviews_dvd/ECW_Extreme_Rules_DVD.htm   (1318 words)

  
 RVD & Sabu busted in Ohio for drugs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
HANGING ROCK - Two wrestling superstars from Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment may be tough in the ring, but they didn't have enough muscle to escape drug charges after being stopped Sunday night by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Robert Alex Szatowski, aka WWE and ECW champion Rob Van Dam, and Terry Michael Brunk, aka Sabu, also a former ECW champion, were pulled over on U.S. 52, near Patrick Street in Hanging Rock at about 10:15 p.m.
He is scheduled to wrestle tonight on WWE Raw and is also wrestling Tuesday night to retain his WWE and ECW titles during the "Extreme Rules Match" on the Sci-Fi channel.
www.worldwrestlingreport.com /NewsWire/news652.htm   (351 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM | ECW
RVD held the ECW World Television Championship for a record-breaking 23 months and his championship reign was ended only because Rob Van Dam broke his ankle and was forced to relinquish the championship.
On the world premiere of ECW on SCI FI on June 13, 2006, ECW representative Paul Heyman finally awarded Rob Van Dam with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt that had eluded RVD for over 10 years.
Rather than throwing down the WWE Championship, RVD chose to wear both belts because the ECW World Heavyweight Championship is the greatest achievement in his career, and WWE Championship belt amuses him because "it spins."
www.scifi.com /ecw/extremists/robvandam   (479 words)

  
 ProWrestling.com > Fantasy > RFI - ECW Thursday Carnage
Tonight I've signed for your friend there Shane Douglas to defend his ECW World Heavyweight Title against a VERY deserving man, and that man is.........RHYNO!!” Down in the ring Douglas and Vince are livid as Paul Heyman begins to laugh and starts to exit to the back before he suddenly stops and turns around.
After the bell is rung Nick Mondo is handed the ECW Dare Devil Championship and he raises his hands in the air in celebration of his victory.
Gordon, “...Uh..Scott, Scott, Earlier this evening Tazz cost you a shot at the ECW World Heavyweight Title at November to Remember, What are your thoughts on this?!” Steiner looks at him for a few moments with rage in his eyes before snatching the mic from Todd’s hands and shoving him out of the way.
www.prowrestling.com /articles/fantasy/803.shtml   (12855 words)

  
 "Extreme Championship Wrestling" (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Extreme Championship Wrestling is reborn in 2006 with Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam, Kurt Angle, The Sandman, and Tommy Dreamer on the map.
ECW is back and ready to be a new breed unleashed.
ECW Superstar Big Show, became the first person to hold the WWE Championship, WCW Heavyweight Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship when Big Show won the ECW title on the July 4, 2006 edition of Extreme Championship Wrestling.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0810614   (530 words)

  
 NWA Wrestling: National Wrestling Alliance 56 Years of History and Tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Recognized locally by Iowa promoter Pinkie George as "National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight champion"; said to have held the title for seven years before losing to Sonny Myers; some reports say Ronnie Etchison defeats Brown for the title in Montana in either 47 or 48.
National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight title, awarded on 49/11/27 when champion Orville Brown is injured in an automobile accident on 49/11/01 before a unification match scheduled on 49/11/25 in St. Louis, MO
Wrestles to a double count-out against AWA World heavyweight champion Rick Martel on 85/10/02 in Tokyo, JAPAN.
www.nwawrestling.com /information/history/world/heavyweight.htm   (657 words)

  
 Pro Wrestling Insider - Pro Wrestling News Inside & Out
In one of the most famous ECW clips, the “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” as it would be later known as, Tommy Dreamer slams a chair into Raven’s skull.
The reputation of ECW eventually became stereotyped for blood and violence but this type of match is what really made the promotion.
At this time in ECW the banners were homemade, ropes were red, yellow and blue, definitely no pyro or expensive graphic packages, etc. But, that was the beauty of the Arena.
www.pwinsider.com /ViewArticle.asp?id=20979&p=1   (1074 words)

  
 WWE: TV Shows > ECW
ECW fans were treated to a Halloween costume contest on ECW on Sci Fi.
Relive the action of ECW on Sci Fi with Hardcore Hangover.
The names of all World Wrestling Entertainment televised and live programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans and wrestling moves and all World Wrestling Entertainment logos are trademarks which are the exclusive property of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
www.wwe.com /shows/ecw   (297 words)

  
 Amazon.com: ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) - Deep Impact Uncensored: Video: Joey Styles,Joel Gertner,Peter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In their battle for the ECW World Heavyweight championship, it doesn't take long for them to be smeared with blood, beating the hell out of each other while hopelessly entangled in strands of wire.
Extreme Championship Wrestling is back with the third edition of the most groundbreaking wrestling video series anywhere - "Deep Impact." Joey Styles, the voice of ECW provides exclusive commentary and insight into the minds of ECW's competitors as they take to the ring in the most brutal violent, awe-inspiring, innovative form of combat anywhere!
ECW Champion Terry Funk vs. Sabu in their famous "Born To Be Wired" barb wire match that was so "extreme" that they had to use wire cutters to separate the two at the end of the match.
www.amazon.com /ECW-Extreme-Championship-Wrestling-Uncensored/dp/B000059WIX   (2435 words)

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